american literature

Will Cather's life on the prairies of Nebraska form the basis for much of her greatest literary achievements. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel, One of Ours.

A collection of essays and journalistic pieces by Chuck Palahniuk that prove that real life is filled with wonder and strangeness at every turn.

Examines selections of African-American literature that feature liberation motifs, including Frederick Douglass's autobiography, fiction novels by Rebecca Jackson and Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright's "Native Son," and Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon.".

Recreates the daily lives of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Briteen, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee during the year they spent living together in 1940s Brooklyn.

A collection of more than forty poems, essays, screenplays, opera librettos, and other types of work by Anne Carson on the theme of "decreation.".

Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on the lives and works of more than seventy-five seventeenth-century British and American writers.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of Sylvia Plath.

John Tytell chronicles his life-long love of reading, reflecting on the many books that had significant impact on his life.

A collection of essays in which Alfred Kazin reflects on the impact of American history on literature.